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The Obama administration announced today a new Climate Service, akin to the National Weather Service. It will “provide Americans with predictions on how global warming will affect everything from drought to sea levels,” according to The Washington Post. The Associated Press reported “The Climate Service will be headquartered in Washington and will have six regional directors across the country.”
Americans for Prosperity President Tim Phillips issued the following statement:
READ MORE“With unemployment still near 10 percent and millions of American families struggling to get by, President Obama has proven how out-of-touch he is by announcing a new bureaucracy to try to prove what we should really be worried about is global warming. The new global warming service will cost millions of dollars we don't have, and its real purpose will be to make the case for crushing new energy taxes and regulations that will impose trillions of dollars of costs on American families. Bad idea.”
The toughest part of fighting back against big-government liberals these days is to keep up with all the reckless choices they make with our money and freedom.
You might have noticed, for instance, that Senate Democrats just voted to raise the federal "debt ceiling" -- the maximum amount Washington politicians can borrow on the backs of our children and grandchildren -- by an eye-popping $1.9 Trillion. Let's just hope and pray that Obama does not know what comes after a trillion.
That's the largest national debt increase in American history -- and it paves the way for yet another wild Washington spending spree our kids and grandkids will have to pay for.
Our friend Steve Moore, a FOX News contributor and Wall Street Journal editorialist, recently pointed out that at his current rate of spending, President Obama will pile up more national debt in just his first 3 years than every other president combined.
You and I know that this massive big government spending threatens our prosperity and kills innovation and private sector job creation. In future years, my four children and yours will see their taxes used to pay for this big spending.
Sadly, it's already here. This past December, the interest alone on our current national debt cost $100 billion. Here's the point. We know the threat of this massive spending, but many of our fellow Americans do not. We've got to educate them on the dangers of the Obama spend-a-thon. We've got to tell them about the proposed $3.8-trillion Obama budget filled with a deficit of at least $1.6 trillion. We've got to get more of our fellow Americans involved in the fight for America's future.
It's critical that Americans for Prosperity keeps up our aggressive efforts to get these facts out and tell Americans the truth about the Obama-Pelosi-Reid agenda -- and that we keep giving common-sense Americans a way to fight back and make a difference.
So, I'm asking you to contribute financially today to our Obama Debt Watch effort - an aggressive, integrated online and grassroots tool to get the facts out to our fellow Americans.
We've got to make sure every American knows and understands why all the spending in Washington -- and all the debt being piled up right now -- is such a dangerous threat to our economic freedoms. While continuing to make sure they don't bring back the health care takeover, and while launching another aggressive effort in 2010 to stop the radical environmental agenda, AFP must take the fight to the big-government side on their massive spending spree. The debt they are piling up will kill our economy in years to come.
Thank you for all that you do.
READ MORE-Bipartisan Efforts in Both Chambers Moving to Check Climate Bureaucracy-
WASHINGTON—The free market grassroots group Americans for Prosperity (AFP) today commended the series of bipartisan efforts in Congress to block the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. Most recently, U.S. Representatives Collin Peterson (D-Minn.), Ike Skelton (D-Mo.) and Jo Ann Emerson (R-Mo.) introduced H.R. 4572, which will block the agency from regulating greenhouse gases based on their effect on climate change.
“Clean Air Act regulations are the worst possible action the federal government could take to reduce the country’s carbon emissions, but only Congress can stop the EPA at this point,” said Americans for Prosperity Vice President for Policy Phil Kerpen. “Chairman Peterson should be lauded for his move to block the EPA, and AFP hopes he will reach out to other agriculture state Democrats so they too understand the devastating impact these regulations would have.”
Other congressional efforts to block EPA include: U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.), Mary Landrieu (D-La.) and Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) introduced a disapproval resolution to stop the regulations. U.S. Representative Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) was the first to introduce legislation prohibiting EPA from regulating greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. Blackburn’s bill has 151 cosponsors and she has collected 122 signatures on a discharge petition. U.S. Representative Earl Pomeroy (D-N.D.) also penned a bill with a similar effect.
“The momentum is building against the EPA’s efforts to wreck havoc on our economy,” Kerpen concluded. “Congressional action is the only thing that can stop this runaway agency, and it’s good to see numerous legislators are getting the message.”
Americans for Prosperity® (AFP) is a nationwide organization of citizen leaders committed to advancing every individual's right to economic freedom and opportunity. AFP believes reducing the size and scope of government is the best safeguard to ensuring individual productivity and prosperity for all Americans. AFP educates and engages citizens in support of restraining state and federal government growth, and returning government to its constitutional limits. AFP has more than 900,000 members, including members in all 50 states, and 25 state chapters. More than 55,000 Americans in all 50 states have made a financial investment in AFP or AFP Foundation. For more information, visit www.americansforprosperity.org
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President Obama and Budget Direct Peter Orszag have thrown transparency out the window and created a black box for taxes and spending on climate change hidden inside their 2011 budget.
February 02, 2010
By Phil Kerpen - FOXNews.com
The big news in last year’s budget release was the revelation that the Obama administration planned to use cap-and-trade to raise $646 billion dollars over ten years to finance its big spending programs. I checked in this year’s budget was how much revenue was expected from the cap-and-trade energy tax, to which the president reiterated his commitment in his State of the Union address last week. The surprising answer is the budget actually has, literally, a blank line for the cap-and-trade tax. A black box. A slush fund. A secret budget-within-the-budget. Talk about a lack of transparency.
Read the rest at FOX Forum.
Listen to a related 2-minute KerpenCast here.
READ MORECatch AFP President Tim Phillips as he joins other conservative leaders for a special live Webcast tonight, Feb. 2!
What: "State of the Union: Voice of the People" -- a conservative response to the president
Where: Webcast on http://tvtownhall.com/ (broadcast live from Family Research Council)
Who: Herman Cain, host, with leaders from the Media Research Center, Family Research Council, Concerned Women for America, FreedomWorks, AFP, Institute for Liberty, Tea Party Patriots
When: Tuesday, Feb. 2, 8 p.m. ET -- live Webcast
Register (free) to watch it online: http://tvtownhall.com/
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